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pekim··on A note on subscription prices from LWN
"A Note from LWN"
pekim··on Build a Stratum 1 PTP Grandmaster on a Budget
RevK's recent stratum 1 server hardware [0] is worth a look. As are the notes [1] that someone wrote up after using it in the UK NTP pool for a couple of weeks.

[0] https://www.revk.uk/2026/07/time-for-something-new.html

[1] https://codeberg.org/RevK/ESP32-GPSNTP/src/branch/main/RevK%...

pekim··on Show HN: Rotating torus in terminal (but with kitty graphics protocol)
The torus.c file start with this include directive.

  #include <_time.h>
I'm not sure what that header file is, but commenting it out allowed for a clean compile for me
pekim··on Building Progressively Enhanced Forms Using htmx
And for me in Chrome.
pekim··on Show HN: 18 Words
> I'm pretty sure it didn't used to continue after getting one wrong.

You're right, it changed a few months ago. I find it more enjoyable now that you can continue to the end.

pekim··on Show HN: 18 Words
https://wordnerd.co/23words/ is similar (but 23 words instead of 18).

Possibly the biggest difference is that 23 Words continues with the next word if you fail to get a word within 30 seconds. When you have attempted all 23 words it will present you with results like this.

    You found 21/23 words
    
    Top 7% of players today.
pekim··on I made a terminal pager
It's one codepoint, U+FDFD, with the name "Arabic Ligature Bismillah Ar-Rahman Ar-Raheem".

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FDFD

pekim··on How can I keep from singing?
I love singing, but I'm not very good at it. About 6 months ago I started attending a local Tuneless Choir[1]. It's just what I needed, and great fun.

[1] https://www.tunelesschoir.com/

pekim··on The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now
I posted about this last week [1], but it didn't get any traction. Although I used a link to the release page rather than the blog announcement, so maybe that was why.

ho hum

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138688

pekim··on Release v2.0.0 · Charmbracelet/Bubbletea
I noticed that Bubble Tea v2 [0] has been released. It looks like a great improvement all round over 1.x. The companion libraries lipgloss[1] and bubbles[2] have also had v2 releases.

[0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea/releases/tag/v2.0... [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss/releases/tag/v2.0.... [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles/releases/tag/v2.0.0

pekim··on ChromaDB Explorer
Looking at https://github.com/stepandel/chroma-explorer/blob/master/pac... it looks like it's using Electron.
pekim··on Strange.website
As soon as I saw the scrolling "made by henry (from online)." at the bottom I thought "marquee" tag. Sure enough when I inspected the DOM it does use one.
pekim··on Twelve Days of Shell
> Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11.

Just the lines from the files are wanted, not the files names. It took me a little while to cotton on to that.

Semi-spoiler follows.

So you need to use the appropriate flag with grep to suppress the file names.

pekim··on Go's Sweet 16
Inserting elements in to a slice can be done quite easily since the introduction of the slices package to the standard library.

https://pkg.go.dev/slices#Insert

pekim··on I Want You to Understand Chicago
I'm in the UK too. So I read the article courtesy of archive.is.

https://archive.is/X33oQ

pekim··on Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?
Darts might not be considered a sport, but the British Darts Organisation [1] and the Professional Darts Corporation [2] co-existed (somewhat acrimoniously) for nearly 30 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Darts_Organisation (BDO)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Darts_Corporation (PDC)

pekim··on Kohler launches smart toilet camera
> and a fingerprint sensor to identify who’s using the toilet

So it sounds like you would only need one camera for multiple people using the same toilet.

pekim··on Show HN: Swapple, a little daily puzzle on linear reversible circuit synthesis
So if I'm understanding it correctly, it applies an xor operation on the pairs of cells. For example, click column A then column B. For each of the pairs of cells in the two columns, it performs B = A xor B.
pekim··on Trumpcard (Official US Government Website)
As the animation loops it uses the same set of images over again. But as they all have a Cache-Control header with a value of "public, max-age=0, must-revalidate" the browser makes another request for every one of the images, every loop of the animation. It results in transfer of something of the order of 0.6MB/sec, with no end.
pekim··on Yearly Organiser
The page's html and css are reasonably small, 3.3kB and 1.5kB. There are three fonts, totalling about 51kB. So altogether about 56kB.

But then somewhat spoiling the page's nice light weight is a 576kB favicon.

pekim··on Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods
I suspect that it is related to the M&S and Co-op attacks. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykgrv374eo
pekim··on Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game
I do https://wordnerd.co/secretword/ most days. It has a similar interface to alphaguess, and I prefer both of them to midword's interface.
pekim··on Show HN: MidWord – A Word-Guessing Game
It appears to highlight the letters that your guesses have narrowed it down to. For example if you had narrowed it down to after 'sudden' and before 'super', it would highlight 'su'.
pekim··on Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
That was fun. I got a score of 4174, and an average of 6.2 years off. Clothes and hair styles were quite helpful in 3 of the pictures.

I'll definitely take a look at it tomorrow.

pekim··on Hacker News Hug of Deaf
Oops, that'll teach me to read articles properly before commenting, rather than just skimming.
pekim··on Hacker News Hug of Deaf
It's not an http server. Try with something like nc or telnet, and you should get an 'ok' response before it disconnects.

    telnet -4 susam.net 8000
pekim··on Could you pass this 8th grade test from 1912?
It's 50 feet.

Using Pythagoras, it's the square root of 30*2 + 40*2. It effectively a 3, 4, 5 right angle triangle.

pekim··on Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories
That would be great. Highlighting each one as it's talked about would be even better.
pekim··on Show HN: What do your GitHub starred repos say about you?
Its take on my profile was reasonably accurate. And I have to say, the roasting was pretty fair and not too mean.
pekim··on Fluid Simulation and Web Assembly
The page appears to install global keydown/up handlers that swallow all key events. And it also disables the browser's context menu.
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